Analyze graphs to discover cultural trends (i.e., clothing, music, or radio sales).
Analyze how environmental changes and crisis affected the economy across the nation in the 1930s (i.e., Dust Bowl, Black Tuesday, Great Depression, Hoovervilles)
Recognize how Americans used credit/installment plans to purchase consumer goods in the 1920s (i.e., vacuum cleaners, washing machines, radios, and other home appliances)
GREAT DEPRESSION AND WORLD WAR II
Here are the standards that go with this Unit. Information can be found in Ch. 7-8 of the Social Studies book.AS ALWAYS, www.internet4classrooms.com is a great resource.
***Don't forget to keep practicing your states!
http://www.pibmug.com/files/map_test.swf FUN!!!!!
Differentiate between needs and wants on a personal and national level.
http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/money/managing/article2.html
Differentiate between an economic boom and bust
Recognize the concept of buying on credit
Interpret economic issues as expressed in maps, tables, diagrams, and charts (i.e., automobile sales, unemployment rates, or airplane production)
http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ss5/b/ecosndli.cfm
Analyze graphs to discover cultural trends (i.e., clothing, music, or radio sales).
Analyze how environmental changes and crisis affected the economy across the nation in the 1930s (i.e., Dust Bowl, Black Tuesday, Great Depression, Hoovervilles)
http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7E1930s/front.htmlThis is a great video: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/dustbowl/
http://www.johnstownpa.com/Local/1930s/page_08-09.shtml
These are the Depression photos that we looked at in class and used for our writing assignment. http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/07/26/captured-america-in-color-from-1939-1943/
Recognize how Americans used credit/installment plans to purchase consumer goods in the 1920s (i.e., vacuum cleaners, washing machines, radios, and other home appliances)
http://www.angelfire.com/co/pscst/Interpret a visual contrasting life before and after Word War II (i.e., education, family size, transportation, urbanization, and the role of women).
Interpret a primary reading sample.
Use tools of social science inquiry such as surveys, statistics, maps, and documents.